Literary Canon Quotes

“Eventually, somebody’s going to have to build upon the Canon and protect actual culture.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“The white masters, masters though they may be, are oblivious to those experiences of bigotry and exclusion that are condemnably common for the rest of us. In this essential matter, those writers of the literary canon are utterly ignorant, and so their reports on the human condition are gapingly incomplete. And still there are critics who argue that lyricism is a finished thing, that a white account of the self is a sufficiently universal contemplation, that any emphasis on race will only diminish its universality.”
― Jaswinder Bolina, Of Color

“A place of literary canon wasn't a guarantee unless you tapped into something deeper, and Jay's longing was drawn from the deepest well of all...”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Spring's Arcana